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Benefits of WordPress

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A site for life! - WordPress is always being updated and further developed so you can keep it looking modern and fresh! Also it is easily expandable, you may add a new section, page or post, to your website with just a few clicks, for absolutely free. Want a site that can expand and change alongside your business, WordPress is it!

Integration! - Newsletters, online payment systems, social media, contact forms, E-commerce, music players, search bars, WordPress has a huge range of freely available plug-in's that can be installed with literally the click of a button, and even for the slightly more advanced ones, any good web design company will be able to point you in the right direction.

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In today’s tutorial we will be making a beautiful HTML5 portfolio powered by jQuery and the Quicksand plugin. You can use it to showcase your latest work and it is fully customizable, so potentially you could expand it to do much more.

The HTML

The first step is to write down the markup of a new HTML5 document. In the head section, we will include the stylesheet for the page. The jQuery library, the Quicksand plugin and our script.js will go right before the closing body tag:

Click here to view full tutorial

For those who are not familiar with jQuery, check out their site for a general overview, and you can also follow up with the various tutorials out there.

View Demo

Click here for tutorial http://www.sohtanaka.com/web-design/simple-tabs-w-css-jquery/

Imagine you have worked hard to make your tables look good, but one thing keeps bugging you; the alignment of the text in the cells. You would, for example, like to align the contents of each cell on the comma character. Unfortunately, no browser supports aligning table cells on characters. This is where the jQuery Text Alignment Plugin comes in; it adds support for aligning text based on characters to all browsers.

Text alignment example

jQuery lightBox plugin is simple, elegant, unobtrusive, no need extra markup and is used to overlay images on the current page through the power and flexibility of jQuery´s selector.

lightBox is a plugin for jQuery. It was inspired in Lightbox JS by Lokesh Dhakar.

The better way to know what is jQuery lightBox plugin, click the Example tab above and see it in action.

Example

http://leandrovieira.com/projects/jquery/lightbox/

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jQuery Plugin – Feature List
 

• Slick effect, no Flash needed
• It’s just 2K
• Reusable on multiple containers
• Cycles items via slideshow
• Can be styled with custom HTML/CSS

You can see the demo at this page, and you can download the complete source code with examples from here.